Foreign-qualified lawyers who pass the Foreign Practitioner Examinations (FPE) can apply for a Foreign Practitioner Certificate to practise in permitted areas of Singapore law.
The institute said it will make available the examination format, syllabuses and reading lists for the FPE in November this year, when prospective candidates can apply to the institute to sit for the FPE.
Professor Walter Woon, Dean of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, said candidates will be tested in four broad areas: Corporate Practice, Commercial Practice, Corporate Finance and Ethics, and Professional Responsibility.
The examinations will be pitched at the standard of a junior partner in a reputable law firm, as one of the objectives of the Foreign Practitioner Certificate regime is to attract high calibre foreign lawyers to contribute their legal expertise to the Singapore economy.
Under the rules, candidates must have at least three years of relevant legal practice or work experience, which may be gained in Singapore or elsewhere, before they are eligible to sit for the FPE.
They must also be practising in Singapore as a foreign lawyer in a joint law venture, qualifying foreign law practice, licensed foreign law practice or Singapore law practice, or have received a job offer to practise in Singapore in one of these law practices.
Those who have a job offer contingent on passing the FPE can also apply.
- CNA/cc
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